The White House has barred senior administration officials from attending an international conference promoting fossil fuel production.
The National Security Council prohibited US officials from pursuing any “carbon-intensive engagement” for oil, natural gas and coal, according to a Sept. 15 memo from Energy Department Deputy Secretary David Turk first reported by Fox News.
Officials must request special authorization for exceptions related to supporting national security or to protect “energy access” in some regions.
“This guidance establishes the presumption that agencies and departments will continue international energy engagement that advances clean energy projects,” Turk was quoted as saying in the memo.
The White House has barred senior administration officials from attending most international conferences promoting fossil fuel production, according to a new report. APUS officials cannot pursue “carbon-intensive engagement” for oil, natural gas and coal, according to a memo from Department of Energy Deputy Secretary David Turk (above) first reported by Fox News.CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images
“It also outlines a process for obtaining limited exemptions to pursue carbon-intensive engagement on the basis of geostrategic or energy-for-development/energy-access imperatives.”
“The guidance rejects any ‘US Government involvement related to unceased or partially reduced coal generation,'” Turk also wrote of the guidance, which initially takes effect in November 2021.
“Carbon-intensive international energy engagements are those ‘directly and specifically related to the production, transportation or use of carbon-intensive fuels that will lead to additional greenhouse gas emissions.'”
Officials must request special authorization for exceptions related to supporting national security or to protect “energy access” in some regions.AP
Representatives for the Department of Energy and the White House did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Daniel Turner, founder and executive director of Power the Future, which advocates for “radical environmental” changes to US energy policy, said in a statement that “America’s war on fossil fuels is making us poorer, weaker and more dependent on China and OPEC for our energy.”
“The Biden administration cannot continue to treat the fossil fuel industry as the enemy,” Turner said. “Millions of people work in this industry that powers our entire country, our military, our national security, and allows Joe Biden to go every weekend to his beach house.”
President Biden issued an executive order in August 2021 that would force 50% of new cars produced to be “zero emissions” by 2030, along with fuel efficiency standards.AP
The Biden administration has pushed for renewable energy alternatives to fossil fuels, given substantial tax credits to wind and solar energy initiatives and set production standards to reduce carbon emissions.
President Biden issued an executive order in August 2021 mandating that 50% of new cars produced be “zero emissions” by 2030, along with fuel efficiency standards.
Another initiative announced at last month’s G20 summit in New Delhi, India, would take $1 billion from US taxpayers to build rail and green infrastructure overseas.
The administration has downplayed greenhouse emissions produced by White House climate envoy John Kerry and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who have flown in private jets.REUTERS
“From the day I took office, we have led with a bold climate agenda,” Biden, 80, told the United Nations in a speech at the body’s General Assembly last month.
“We rejoined the Paris Agreement, held a major climate summit, helped deliver a critical agreement on COP26. And we’re helping to get two-thirds of the world’s GDP on track to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.”
Meanwhile, Biden administration officials have avoided fossil fuel summits like the World Gas Conference and refused to invite oil and gas industry leaders to their own White House Methane Summit in July.
The administration has also downplayed the greenhouse emissions produced by White House climate envoy John Kerry and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg — both of whom have flown several times in private jets.
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